Maybe 24-Hour Comics Day is for you. The third-annual event, being celebrated Saturday in 15 countries, encourages all professional or aspiring artists to write and illustrate a 24-page comic book in 24 hours.
Ten artists will observe the day by creating their comic books and graphic novels at Night Flight Comics at downtown Salt Lake City's Main Library. Beginning Saturday at 10 a.m., Night Flight will stay open for 24 hours to accommodate artists who will draw until 10 a.m. Sunday - or at least until wrist cramps set in.
"It's all fun and games at 10 a.m. But 15 to 16 hours into it, it really separates the men from the boys," says Night Flight manager Mimi Cruz, who hosted the event for the first time last year. "Nobody fell asleep. But about 4 in the morning, there were a couple of artists who just couldn't go on."
Gawkers are welcome; for more information, call 801-532-1188. The store will provide coffee and pizza to the artists, who also must arrange for a ride home Sunday morning - because who wants to be run off the road by a bleary-eyed comic-book artist? Not me.
When she pours, she reigns: Raise a glass to bartender Bonnie Ulmer of Deer Valley Resort, whose blueberry mojito won the Park City Restaurant Association's second annual Libation Nation cocktail contest. Ulmer's concoction, which contains light and dark rum, soda, lemonade and fresh blueberries, beat out cocktails by 14 other Park City bartenders before a panel of judges last Wednesday at the Sidecar on Main Street. (Yes, all judges were chauffeured home afterward.)
Many cocktails paid homage, at least in name, to Park City's colorful history as a mining town. Runners-up included the Park City Mine Water, the Red Light District and the Coal Miner's Dream. (Park City's miners dug mostly for silver, not coal, but hey, if it tastes good, who cares?)
Ulmer's recipe becomes the official Park City signature cocktail for the upcoming ski season and will be served in most restaurants in town. It sounds tasty, if a little summery for a winter resort.
But it doesn't exactly conjure images of Park City's mining past. I can't imagine a grizzled miner walking into a dirty saloon and saying, "Clem, hold the whiskey. Give me a blueberry mojito."
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